It's not the Darkness who wants to destroy Hyrule. It's the people (ab)using it. A person weilding a force is not representative of the force. If I am using a gun to destroy, it does not mean the gun itself has a wish to destroy.
The Darkness, by its very nature, corrupts and destroys Hyrule. Look at FSA, the emphasis on "Darkness" transforming Hyrule is total and throughout the entire game. Ganon's own form was that of a ball of darkness until this materialised as the Pig. Zelda's Light was the power that sealed Darkness/Ganon away.
Darkness isn't good or evil, but the people who use it's power do.
Proof? When has Darkness ever been associated with good?
So why can't Shadows and Darkness in the Cosmic context be to the forces of light as shadows are to humans? If you light a candle, a shadow is born. The same applies in Zelda. You have day, so there must be night.
They are opposites but this doesn't mean they serve simply to keep the balance. Does this very argument serve a ying-yang purpose, for example?
No they don't. The Gods made everything. To say otherwise is to contradict the creation myth. (And before you say that Chaos was there, remember that Chaos, Darkness, and Evil are all three entirely different nouns that are not synonymous. In greek mythology, Chaos was the force used to create the universe.)
There is lots of evidence that the Gods do directly intervene against Darkness. The Gods told the Hylians to make the Master Sword (SW), they gave prophecies of what to do when evil arises (OoT, TWW), they kept the KoRL alive so he could be set to find the Hero of Winds. And for the final blow, one of TP's backstories features the goddesses directly driving out evil from the Sacred Realm.
And this doesn't contradict the creation myth. In the beginning, Hyrule was Chaos. Out of that chaos, the Gods created order and life. It's all there.
You say that Darkness is the force that constantly attacks Hyrule. Need I remind you that Vaati draws his power from a little something called a "Light Force"? Yea. Thought so.
Light can be abused just like Darkness.
That presumes the Light Force is made from the actual power of Light. If you look at the context surrounding the Light force, it never repels evil in the respect that both the Master Sword and the Forest of Light did. Likewise, the Minish who made it only refer to it as "limitless magical power", not light in itself. It's function is actually closer to the Triforce, it gives power to the holder. Take into account that Zelda was using the power to repel and seal the monsters that were ravaging the land and it becomes apparent why it was called the Light Force in her possession.
The power of the Goddesses (The Triforce) has caused more destruction to Hyrule than any force of Darkness.
Actually, the primary purpose of the Triforce maintains the order in Hyrule, as stated in the SW. It's secondary ability to give power to the hearts of humans (or demons in human form, like Ganondorf) is what causes the destruction. In the hearts of someone with a balanced heart, like Link, the Triforce can be used to bring light to Hyrule and repel chaos from the land.
Also, the full Triforce's power has never actually been used by Ganon outside of the Sacred Realm, so Ganon with the Trident arguably did more damage to Hyrule.
You're done. Your statements about Hyrule's Duality are baseless and are easily discarded with Occam's Razor, and don't even work in the context of the games.
Lol, not only are your insults failing miserably, you failed to provide any evidence whatsoever to support your argument. In fact, part of that went against the script itself. Occams Razor fails if you don't use it properly.
Edited by jhurvid, 20 November 2006 - 08:23 AM.
